At Himalayan
Mercantile we are well known for our top notch collection of
Himalayan masks. Himalayan middle hills masks are enjoying ever
more interest in the tribal art community. With the
streams of old animist tribal religions melding with the
Hindu and Buddhist influences, the masks
of Nepal and the greater Himalayan region exhibit amazing variation in form
and represent a very rich and ancient tradition of ritual mask
use. That is why increasingly
savvy collectors of tribal art recognize that this is a genre with great depth and perhaps most notably these
Himalayan masks remain radically undervalued in comparison to the tribal
arts of other regions of the world.

Above: An exceedingly rare and
unique Southern Nepal mask of Jatayu, the Vulture King from the
Hindu epic, Ramayana.